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  My daughter is scared of crocodiles. Any advice?

  by myauntfanny in

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  every few nights my daughter calls me in and says she's worried about the crocodile coming to get her.

  i know some people on here have small children (she's three), what do you say to them?

  i tell her there's not really any crocodiles, but it doesn't seem to help.

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  It's always tempting to just stay till she goes to sleep but then if she wakes up later she panics that I'm not still there, whereas if she goes to sleep alone then she just gets herself back to sleep if she wakes later on in the night. Funny thing, that. And she also wakes up more often and more alert on the nights I stay till she falls asleep, and it doesn't even seem to help with the underlying problem because it gets worse and worse on successive nights until she wants to sleep with us (always the Holy Grail for three year olds, their sole aim in life seems to be getting back into the parental bed). I almost get the feeling that me staying interferes with her ability to solve the problem as she gets more and more dependent on me to keep the crocs away.

  But anyway, I'm going to do the croc hunt with her before she gets in bed tonight, look everywhere, which she should find fun and it might lighten things up a little.

  Okay, little toe, you can go ahead and hijack my thread with your dream now. I'm sure many enquiring minds want to know.

  Edited to add:

  Zennudist that's all very well but I have no bloody idea what to do when confronted by a crocodile. I was under the impression that unless you are Crocodile Dundee there aren't a lot of options. But it's good advice, I'll go read up on it. Maybe it's in my book of worst case scenarios.
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  Tornado Outside My Window

  by blondie in

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  about 15 minutes ago irreverent comes down and tells me to look outside the window.

  there we see a twister snaking down to the field behind us.

  i grabbed our important papers and grabbed the phone and ran into the laundry room in the basement.

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  I was in Denver one year when the tornados changed their normal pattern and swept through town and it was THE SCARIEST THING EVER! I was staying in a mobile home and there were about 5 kids there and I don't think I have ever panicked so much in my life as then. There were little tornadoes and big ones, and I saw in the distance an enormous column of what I thought was birds, then it got closer and I realised it was large debris. The next day the newspaper was full of pictures of 300 year old trees pulled up by the roots, and a full size truck, one of the BIG ones, on top of a roof. I never want to see a tornado again, except on tv.
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  Austin Powers ... tell me when I should be laughing please

  by Simon in

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  i'm sorry, but i've just watched one of the austin powers movies for the first time after hearing many people rave about them and imo it's almost as bad as "armageddon" that is on the other side.. i thought it was supposed to be a comedy?!

  it is kind-a like the poorest "carry-on" movie ever .

  the only saving grace that has stopped me switching over is heather graham ... who is hot !!

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  Austin Powers movies don't do a thing for me. Although that one scene at the very beginning of the first one where he pees for ever after waking up, that I did laugh at. I do think Mike Meyers is funny (he was the best thing in that boring movie about flight attendants), but the Austin Powers movies couldn't be saved, the scripts were just too lame.

  I saw Love Actually last week, too, it was really good. What a cast!
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  My daughter is scared of crocodiles. Any advice?

  by myauntfanny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  every few nights my daughter calls me in and says she's worried about the crocodile coming to get her.

  i know some people on here have small children (she's three), what do you say to them?

  i tell her there's not really any crocodiles, but it doesn't seem to help.

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  Thanks everyone for the support. That helps.

  Nina

  Don't read her the story of Peter Pan.

  Too late. Ooops.

  Gently Feral

  It's OK to explain that monsters don't really live under the bed, but don't expect your child to believe it.

  That's what I suspected.

  Bikerchic

  I'm afraid of crocodiles too which is why I live where they don't.

  LOL. Well, we have no crocodiles here, except at the aquarium, which together with Peter Pan was possibly a mistake. Now I feel bad, I wish I'd been smarter. But I don't see even now how I can avoid exposure to anything she might be afraid of. Kid's books and movies are full of scary things.
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  Video blog of US Iraq soldier who is AWOL

  by Leolaia in

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  watching the drama unfold, this is really something....but i'm experiencing the "jerry springer" effect, not sure if this is real:.

  http://www.dvrepublic.org/radio/foreign_relations/main.cfm.

  see especially the video from thursday from this guy's wife back home who is hopping mad about the website.

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  Hi, Leoaliea

  I read the last journal entry, there he says he's afraid of being radioactive, rather than contagious. I googled it and I could find nothing, even on the left-wing sites, that says an exposed person is radioactive. And his wife's a journalist so I'd have thought she would have researched that. It all seems kind of strange. I get the Jerry Springer vibe too.
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  My daughter is scared of crocodiles. Any advice?

  by myauntfanny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  every few nights my daughter calls me in and says she's worried about the crocodile coming to get her.

  i know some people on here have small children (she's three), what do you say to them?

  i tell her there's not really any crocodiles, but it doesn't seem to help.

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  Every few nights my daughter calls me in and says she's worried about the crocodile coming to get her. I know some people on here have small children (she's three), what do you say to them? I tell her there's not really any crocodiles, but it doesn't seem to help.
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  "What is politics?"

  by WildTurkey in

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  a little boy goes to his dad and asks, "what is politics?".

  dad says, "well son, let me try to explain it this way: i'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism.

  your mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the government.

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  Love it.
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  A Question Of Manners.

  by Englishman in

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  i'm looking for some feedback here.

  hl and i like to socialise sometimes, and this often results in us hosting small parties for a few friends.. often our friends reciprocate, and then we enjoy being guests instead of being hosts.. but we keep encountering a dilemma.

  one set of friends like us to visit them for afternoon bbq's or sometimes for evening dinner parties.. now, no problem with dinner parties, but if say we go to a bbq at around 4.30, they expect us to remain with them for the entire evening right through until around 11 pm or midnight, the same time as we'd stay to if we went to a late dinner party.. personally, i've had enough at about 9 pm, that's 5 hours, so we like to leave and have a pint or two in the pub on the way home.. now this makes them quite angry and they say that we're being anti-social because we are off to the pub instead of spending the whole evening with them.. i maintain that if you go to tea or a bbq in the late afternoon, then it's quite acceptable to depart earlier than if you went to a late dinner party.. what do you think?.

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  I think 5 hours of anybody is well more than enough, but some people like to socialise all the time. We have friends who are always act like we're being rude when we leave, I sometimes get the feeling they'd really like us to spend the night and stay for breakfast the next morning. I'm always very firm about it, because if I stay longer than I want to, I just won't want to come next time.
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  Let's face it. The main reason to be a JW is the feeling of belonging.

  by new light in

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  don't you agree?

  the doctrine part has its appeal for some people, but most join and stay because it feels good to belong to something larger than yourself.. realizing this may make it easier for some to stay away.

  that longing you may feel at first to join them or go back to them is not holy spirit, it's just the natural human inclination to belong to a group.

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  Find a group that let's you be yourself, a group that appreciates and makes use of your individuality.

  I agree, but it's easier said than done. The temptation of a cult is that if you believe as they do, you're automatically accepted, with or without social skills. Or at least it seems so at first.
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  GOOGLEWAR

  by Nina in

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  http://www.googlewar.com/

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  "Republicans"	vs.	"Democrats"
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  The winner is: Democrats